Civil War: Front Line #11
I started out liking this series more than any of the other CW stuff, but I've liked it less and less as time went on, and I think that's because I've liked Sally Floyd less and less as time went on.
The whole Myspace thing? I'd seen it mentioned online. Figured at first it was someone's joke, filling in the word balloons with something funny instead of whatever was really there. Nope, she actually said it. Possibly Sally hit her head on a turnstile while hiding in the subway? (BTW, I'm pretty sure that Cap knows who won the World Series--ever seen a WWII movie? That generation, love of baseball was practically universal.) Hell, I've never been to a NASCAR race, and I have exactly one friend who follows it at all. Does that make me un-American, that I may not be familiar with some aspects of various American subcultures? That stuff is superficial. (So's "Mom and apple pie," incidentally.)
I wasn't all that impressed with the Iron Man part of this issue, either. I'm inclined to side with the folks who see some sarcasm in Sally's applause (although after what she said in the first half of the book I'm not absolutely certain), and in any case it's clear that understanding what Tony has done doesn't lead to respecting him for it.
Civil War: The Confession
Taken in combination with Front Line 11, it does look like Marvel's strategy for making Tony likable again starts out with making him all sad and emo. Maybe the idea is that if folks feel sorry for him, they won't hate him anymore? (I don't think it works like that. I know it doesn't in real life.) Really, I do feel bad for him, having been fairly fond of the character for 30 years or so, but that's tempered by the fact that it's all pretty much his own doing, and it's not (so far) helping me regain much of the fondness.
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